Is there any way to download all email archive of linux kernel, and then import to Gmail for search?

[zhp]

I have found that there is some methods for me to migrate local
existing emails to Gmail for search.

* Gmail Loader
see http://www.linux.com/articles/60733

* imapsync,
see http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/

However, the problem is where can I get all of the old mails to my
local computer?
Has anyone done such things sucessfully?
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[Erik Mouw]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 10:21:42PM +0800, zhp wrote:
> I have found that there is some methods for me to migrate local
> existing emails to Gmail for search.
>
> * Gmail Loader
> see http://www.linux.com/articles/60733
>
> * imapsync,
> see http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/
>
> However, the problem is where can I get all of the old mails to my
> local computer?
> Has anyone done such things sucessfully?

I don't think so, the full linux-kernel is too large for a single gmail
account (FY: last month was 91 MB of traffic, that's about 1.1 GB per
year). However, you can use standard Google search on the various
linux-kernel archives. Here is your message:

http://www.google.com/search?q=imapsync+site:lkml.org
http://www.google.com/search?q=imapsync+linux-kernel+site:gmane.org

Erik

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[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:21:42 +0800 zhp <zhp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have found that there is some methods for me to migrate local
> existing emails to Gmail for search.
>
> * Gmail Loader
> see http://www.linux.com/articles/60733
>
> * imapsync,
> see http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/
>
> However, the problem is where can I get all of the old mails to my
> local computer?
> Has anyone done such things sucessfully?

http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/lkml-mbox-archives/ might be useful.

(Gad, 8MB/sec bandwidth from my Tokyo hotel room to kernel.org!)

[Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:25:16 -0700
Andrew Morton <ak...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:21:42 +0800 zhp <zhp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have found that there is some methods for me to migrate local
> > existing emails to Gmail for search.
> >
> > * Gmail Loader
> > see http://www.linux.com/articles/60733
> >
> > * imapsync,
> > see http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/
> >
> > However, the problem is where can I get all of the old mails to my
> > local computer?
> > Has anyone done such things sucessfully?
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/lkml-mbox-archives/ might be useful.
>
> (Gad, 8MB/sec bandwidth from my Tokyo hotel room to kernel.org!)

I'm reading LKML via NNTP from Gmane (not Gmail). But Gmane also
provides mbox exporting, take a look at http://gmane.org/export.php

I suppose you could use one of these two methods (NNTP or their export
stuff) to download your old mails.

Cheers,
Eduard

[zhp]

Thank you for your help, guys!

I think it will be an viable method to achieve my goal in the following way:
1. Export part of or all (maybe Gmail cannot hold all) of the archive
mail from Gmane to a local mbox file.
2. Upload the mbox file to Gmail by Gmail Loader.

I will try this way and tell you the result.

I think it will be very nice if Google is willing to use its Gmail
technology to archive mail lists. Anyway, Gmail is the best Web Mail
(functionality, user experience) that I have ever used.